How
Can I Improve My English?
Mr white
J Ever sincc I arrived in Beijing almost two years ago I have heard this question: fror
ajor, from a stranger on the street, from a brave soul standing in the middle of a large lecture
beside me one evening at an English corner
2 It seems a perfectly fair and simple question, and it's a question I hate
I hate it bceause it seems completely reasonable but is actually a trap, because it seems so ea
but is actually a riddle to stump Oedipus. And I am not Oedipus
a It is a question always asked by earnest students, and every time I hear it I feel that this
sincere plea must meet a clear answer and that I, as an English teacher, should know the answe
5 Oh, I have answers, but I don't have the answer, not the answer I think they're looking fo
on that will
fix all their mistakes and expand their vocabulary In easy steps. I can't provide that The truth
W
the time you are two years old until you are fo, you must be immersed in that language from
re's only one easy way to learn a language
ld. These are the years, linguists tell us,
during which children don, t learn a language, but rather catch it like a disease. They pick it up
without conscious effort
